Helping Teens with Career Planning
Your students may not be fully in aware of the resources available at your school for career planning. Help them develop a plan and some sample questions to use in an interview with their guidance counselor. Share the format below. State your…
Jim Caviezel’s Powerful Message for Young Catholics
Jim Caviezel, the actor who played Jesus in The Passion of Christ, told the audience of young Catholics to “shake off their indifference” and “express their faith in public.” This presentation--just under sixteen minutes in…
A Mini-Unit on Adoption for High School Students
Adoption: A Choice worth Making is a five-day mini-unit to support any course in a Catholic high school theology curriculum. It is also appropriate for parish youth ministry. The purpose of the mini-course is to acknowledge the value of human life…
Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati: Growing in Holiness
Named “the man of the eight Beatitudes” by Pope John Paul II at his beatification ceremony in Rome in 1990, Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati was a joy-filled man who lived only to age twenty-four, but who remains a model for bountiful love and…
Pope Francis Gives TED Talk
Pope Francis offers a TED talk on solidarity, hope, and tenderness and how each person (“Tu!”) can bring a lit candle to a dark world. The talk is approximately 18 minutes in length.
Entertaining Angels: A Film on the Life of Dorothy Day
Entertaining Angels, a 1996 film on the life of Dorothy Day, is available online free of charge. The film runs 1:51:31. The film traces Dorothy’s spiritual and religious development as she leaves her career in journalism to live a bohemian…
Seat Warming Activity on Marriage
Last week was National Marriage Week. As a seat warming activity, have your students write answers to the following questions about marriage. The first set of questions is objective questions with the answers to be summarized from the Catechism of…
Sharing News about a Religious Vocation
The discernment of a religious vocation for a young man or young woman is accompanied by prayer, questioning, and finally a decision. At some point the person tells his or her family of the choice to further prepare for the priesthood or religious…
Get In the Game!
With the World Series near, football in full swing, and basketball and hockey seasons just kicking off, sports certainly is in the forefront. Use the reference of sports to remind your students to “get in the game” of life, to always…
Canonization of Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa of Calcutta is to be canonized a saint in the Catholic Church on Monday, September 4, 2016, in Rome.